| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 277 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 159
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 159.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-272) and index. |
| Summary |
"Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major black writers generated productive models for imagining political agency. Yogita Goyal analyzes the tensions between romance and realism in the literature of the African diaspora, examining a remarkably diverse group of twentieth-century authors, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Chinua Achebe, Richard Wright, Ama Ata Aidoo and Caryl Phillips. Shifting the center of black diaspora studies by considering Africa as constitutive of black modernity rather than its forgotten past, Goyal argues that it is through the figure of romance that the possibility of diaspora is imagined across time and space. Drawing on literature, political history, and postcolonial theory, this significant addition to the cross-cultural study of literatures will be of interest to scholars of African American studies, African studies, and American literary studies."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the romance of diaspora -- From domestic allegory to imperial romance: Pauline Hopkins and racial mixture -- From double consciousness to diaspora: W. E. B. Du Bois and black internationalism -- From nativism to nationalism: Joseph Casely Hayford, Chinua Achebe, and colonial modernity -- From romance to realism: Richard Wright and nation time -- From revolution to arrested decolonization: Ama Ata Aidoo and the long view of history -- From return to redemption: Caryl Phillips and postcolonial hybridity. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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English-speaking countries. |
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English literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Black authors. |
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African diaspora in literature.
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African diaspora in literature. |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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African literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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African literature (English) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Goyal, Yogita. Romance, diaspora, and black Atlantic literature. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521763592 (DLC) 2010001506 (OCoLC)501404176 |
| ISBN |
9780511770845 (ebook ; CambridgeCore) |
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0511770847 (ebook ; CambridgeCore) |
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9780511770272 (electronic book) |
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0511770278 (electronic book) |
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9780521763592 (hardback) |
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0521763592 (hardback) |
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